IPv6 Firewall?

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IPv6 Firewall?

Having recently got an Apple Airport Extreme and enabling IPv6, I would like to know whether the Firewall in Leopard supports IPv6 traffic as well as IPv4 - I am talking about the one that is configured via the system preferences. My concern is having IPv6 support, but not having a firewall on my Mac that is able to deal with it.

I know I can use the command line tool, but I would like to know whether it it is even necessary to use it.

MacBook Pro 15" 2006, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 7, 2008 7:56 AM

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Andre John Mas Author

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Apr 9, 2008 1:01 PM in response to Andre John Mas

Replying to my own post. It would appear that the Firewall in MacOS X 10.5 does indeed seem to be IPv6 aware. This I confirm by doing a simple test of pinging my Mac's IPv6 and IPv4 address, then turning on stealth mode and trying the same thing. Stealth mode blocked both IPv4 and IPv6 pings to the machine.

Unfortunately I can't seem to find any official documentation on this, so this simple test will have to satisfy me for now.

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